Social Worker- Taconic Correctional Facility

POSITION: Social Worker, The Parenting Center—Taconic Correctional Facility

REPORTS TO: Program Director of Taconic Parenting’s Center.

STATUS: Part-Time

POSITION SUMMARY: Hour Children (HC) is an organization founded to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children successfully rejoin the community, reunify with their families, and build healthy, independent, and secure lives. Hour Children provides compassionate and comprehensive services approaching the work in an anti-discriminatory, inclusive environment committed to HC’s standards of justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. This position provides case management, therapy, crisis intervention, and advocacy to mothers and single women who are transitioning back into the community from incarceration.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide holistic individual case management (intake, assessment, case planning, service plan reviews, and discharge planning)
• Co-facilitate gender-responsive and trauma-informed group programming

• Current curricula used include Seeking Safety, Beyond Anger and Violence, Circle of Safety, Parenting Journey, and Beyond Trauma

• Collaborate with Hour Children’s child and adolescent therapist to support reunification efforts and provide ongoing family support
• Complete and file weekly and monthly progress notes, clinical documents such as bio-psychosocial
• Attend internal staff meetings, trainings, and supervision as well as related external meetings and trainings with resource partners

• Perform additional department or agency related duties or special projects as directed by supervisor

• Comply with all prison procedures, processes, and requirements, including all security regulations and PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) requirements.
• Attend all mandatory DOCCS trainings, including orientation refresher, when required, as well as full compliance with all DOCCS requirements and directives
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in mental health or social work
• LMHC, LLMFT, MHC-LP or LMSW degree required, LCSW preferred

• Experience working with high-risk population or in correctional facility setting a plus
• Strong Counseling skills
• Able to deliver services in a culturally sensitive manner
• Energetic approach to problem solving with children and adults
• Experience working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to maintain appropriate boundaries
• Flexibility to work evenings or occasional weekends, as needed.

Specifications for Physical Requirements

Ability to walk around facility and carry 20 or less pounds.

Hour Children does not provide Visa support!

This role requires the successful completion and approval of a background check and application, to be conducted by the New York State Department of Corrections & Community Supervision in accordance with their protocols and procedures in addition to an Hour Children application.